Yan's Garden 潮樓

Yan's Garden 潮樓 is a restaurant that offers a variety of dim sum dishes. When visiting on a Saturday at 10am, the restaurant is initially empty but fills up by 11:30am. The establishment serves their dishes in carts, with some items available to be ticked off on a paper for ordering.

The steamed beef tripe in special sauce is a highlight, with a strong and good flavor of tripe. The steamed rice flour roll with scallops and seaweed is another recommended dish, as it has slices of scallops throughout and has a smooth texture with a slight rice flavor. The shrimp dumplings or har gao are filled with lots of shrimp, but the outside skin is a bit too thick. The taro fried dumpling and deep fried sesame balls are not as crispy as desired, but the filling is decent. The pork shrimp shao mai dumpling has a good bite and is well flavored. The steamed pork ribs are also a notable dish, with soft meat and a big portion.

The fried milk custard is an interesting dessert, but it might only be ordered once as it is not what one would expect. The tea served is strong and not just hot water with loose tea. Overall, Yan's Garden 潮樓 has good food and excellent service, making it a solid choice for run-of-the-mill dim sum. However, some servers can be a bit pushy when selling dishes that have been sitting for a while. Recommendation is dependent on whether one is looking for unique dishes or solid, traditional dim sum.